Tuesday, March 30, 2010

It's getting a little ridiculous, but we seem almost incapable of getting our Open Studio dates correct.

I blame Sixto. As he has been majorly busy with his Masters & teaching & generally being freaking awesome, he hasn't reminded us we have one by his usual way of a gorgeous (unsolicited!!) illustration appearing magically & unexpectedly in our inbox! :)

(We ♥ Sixto)

Sooo...

UPDATE! No Open Studio this weekend coz it's Easter (duh, I&S.) - instead we're going to have one on Saturday 17th April - that's two weeks later, people!

The other bit of exciting news is that Little Harvest are now our permanent studio mates here at the Ink & Spindle studio!! Yup, they moved all their gear in a week or so ago and the studio is already looking so much more exciting, vibrant and creative due to their presence! It's so nice to have some extra creative ladies sharing our space. Even though they're here mostly when we're not and we're like ships passing in the night ;)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~A quick funny story:

Lara C (me) & Lara D (harvest) were talking on the phone the other day and the conversation went like this:

Lara C: "It's just so great to have new shelving in the studio and now everything has a home!"Lara D: "Yeah I come from a very organised family. My mum's a librarian."Lara C: "OMG, my mum is a librarian too! What does your dad do??"Lara D: "My dad's a mathematician."Lara C: "OMG my dad's a mathematician too!"Lara D: "Yeah he does statistics type stuff."Lara C: "Yeah he does! How did you know that?"Lara D: "No i mean my dad does statistics."Lara C: "No way! My dad does statistics stuff too!!"

I mean what are the chances! (insert "your statistician fathers could tell you that" joke here). Not only do we share the same name but our parents share exactly the same occupations. Crazy.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Monday, March 29, 2010

How fantastic is this!? A gorgeous self contained cottage studio called Little Wren in Macedon. Such a lovely fit-out, and it features our Blue Wrens fabric on the curtains and blinds!! Thanks so much to Josie for choosing our fabric and emailing us with photos :)

Thursday, March 25, 2010

2010 seems to be the year for doing all those things we've been wanting to do for ages. Releasing a proper collection of textiles was one of those things, the other was to start printing exclusively on organic textiles and phase out our old cotton/linen basecloths.

The biggest challenge was finding a suitable replacement for the darker natural cotton/linen cloth. But finally we have!!!

The new unbleached organic cotton/hemp basecloth is just beautiful! We've printed quite a few runs on this basecloth now but we still go "oooooooooh" every time we do! It's just that little bit lighter than the natural, and all of our prints look so much better for it.

We're slowly working our way through the range so not everything has changed over yet, but here's what we've done so far:

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Last month our Dear Friend visited us here at I&S HQ, and after she swore not to blog about it ;) we insisted Fi take away a piece of our then-not-yet-released Tamarillo Rooftops in Snow! And just look at this:

How fantastic is she? Love it, love it, love it, LOVE IT!

Check out Dear Fii's gorgeous Rooftops post over here for even more awesomeness!

Monday, March 22, 2010

It's been such a long time coming - lots of plotting, planning, designing, printing, sewing, making, photographing. And we're sooo happy with how it's come together!

Tamarillo - fabric bolts in canvas and light weight

The range is available as meterage in our shopright now, in both lightweight and canvas weight. Most excitingly, the basecloth is a GOTS certified, fair trade and organic cotton, and the red basecloth is herbally dyed using madder root. How awesome is that!?

Tamarillo - cushions!

Cushions and lamps will be available for sale at our open studios and market stalls, and we'll also be offering them wholesale.

Tamarillo - floor cushion!

Head over to our shop now! There's only very limited quantities of each fabric available until we print more, so if you like one snap it up!

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Have we ever talked about how much we LOVE our Younghusband building and all the people in it?? Yes it might be as leaky as an old boat but everyone loves it here.

I could write a novel about all of our neighbours and how awesome they are, but our closest neighbours are Lettuce, positioned directly below us who we have lunch with most days and can yell to through the floorboards, Yong next door who comes in for coffee and desperately seeks 'something sweet' to eat mid afternoon when he's feeling low, and the Boxing Gym upstairs where we've started going for Muay Thai classes. And lets not forget Al Martinez the master puppeteer who rescues us on a regular basis with his array of power tools, metal bits & bobs and even custom made brackets to pull our table flat again after the storm. A long post on Al will be written soon!

Anyway this little bit of gushing was prompted by the talented Yong who's made yet another awesome video, this time filmed when we were printing Gingko the other day. Cute and quirky:

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Just a super quick post to let you know we will be closed until further notice! :(

Unfortunately, we (and all our poor Younghusband neighbours) were flooded out in Saturday's crazy intense hail storm - all four levels! We're hoping to get things back on track, but we have a lot of clean up and repairs to do in the meantime.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

As you might have noticed, this year we've decided to consolidate our textile range and release new colourways in suites! But first we need to sell a whole bunch of fabric we don't want to print anymore. Soooo, we're having our FIRST EVER (and maybe only ever) SALE! Hooray!

Monday, March 1, 2010

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Ink & Spindle is a boutique textile studio located in Kensington, Melbourne. Run by Lara Cameron and Caitlin Klooger, we screen print all our textiles by hand on a 10m table in an ethical and sustainable manner.

We are inspired by all things natural and our city of Melbourne. We love being a part of the local design community and collaborating with other creative & lovely people.

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Come watch a printing demonstration, have a cup of tea, a chat and browse our textiles!